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An artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, an Earth-like world orbiting the closest star to the Sun - Proxima Centauri. Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser

2016: a fascinating scientific year

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An artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, an Earth-like world orbiting the closest star to the Sun - Proxima Centauri. Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser

A new world around the corner

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The universe from the surface of an alien planet. Illustration: shutterstock

Life at the seam between the bright side and the dark side: the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to examine the composition of the atmosphere of Proxima Centauri b

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Physicist Stephen Hawking, and behind him investor Yuri Milner (left), Freeman Dyson and Avi Leib at the announcement of the STARSHOT project in New York in April 2016. PR photo

The Israeli astrophysicist's journey to Proxima Centauri

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Artist's rendering of a planet with an atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf.

Is there life on the nearest planet, Proxima Centauri b?

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